286 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 2 - Book 24 - "Believe in Thine Heart" - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 24 "BELIEVE IN THINE HEART" Now we just finished Chapter 9, and that was dealing with Israel's past so let's go right into Romans Chapter 10, and remember this chapter will deal with Israel in this present day dispensation. I love that verse in Colossians: A Jew today is under no different situation than a Gentile so far as God is concerned, and they have to understand that. Since Chapter 10 of Romans is dealing with the Jew in this present age, it stands to reason that everything in Chapter 10 has an application for us. This 90% think that God is through with the Jew. Now let's read, and remember Paul is writing to Gentiles. Romans 10:1,2 "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved." Do you remember what Paul said about this back in Chapter 9? "For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge." Well the next week on the way out she almost repeated it word for word. Romans 10:3a "For they being ignorant..." If we haven't been taught something we're ignorant of the subject, and in this case it's just simply that they had never been taught. They had never opened up their thinking to understand what The Book says. Romans 10:3,4 "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." Faith! Let's go for a moment to Luke Chapter 21, because I don't won't to be an alarmist, I'm not a sensationalist, and I have never taught sensationalism. Let's begin with verse 25, and we may also go on back to Matthew Chapter 24. Luke 21:25a It seems like the whole world is in turmoil. And then you have the population problem, because the world is just being inundated with people, and some of the most poverty stricken areas of the world are having a population explosion. It never enters their mind. Now look what Jesus said in this chapter. Matthew 24:37,38 Now verse 39: Matthew 24:39 Here we have the events leading up to the end times, we should know, as a nation of people with Bibles in all our homes, if America can't be enlightened, then who in the world can be. Back to Romans 10: Romans 10:5 People are doing the works, they're doing the things that they think need to be done, but without faith, and God will not accept it. Now verse 6, and that verse starts with the word "But," and what have I always told you about that word in Scripture? Romans 10:6-8 "But the righteousness which is of faith (That righteousness that comes by believing the Word of God) speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (Now look at verse 8) The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;" John 10:1 "Verily, verily, I say unto you. John 10:2,3 "But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. John 10:6,7 "This parable spake Jesus unto them; (Jesus is talking to His own people, the Children of Israel) but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Then said Jesus unto them again, `Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.'" What's Jesus saying? Now whenever I've taught this chapter in the past, how have I put it? Where was the door to that sheep fold? A question came up the other afternoon, "What about people who have never heard the Gospel?" I Corinthians 15:1-4.) Because The Book says that every man that comes into this world has been enlightened. Let me show you in John's Gospel, I found this verse not long ago, and I thought I knew John's Gospel, but here was a verse that I had totally missed all these years. John 1:9 "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." How many times have people asked me about these people who have never heard the Gospel. Romans 1:18-20 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. Now go back to Romans Chapter 10, and verse 8: Romans 10:8 (The Scriptures) Romans 10:8 The word is night thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith,..." Not works, not legalism, but the Word of faith, or belief. Let's turn real quick to Romans Chapter 1, and this says it no differently than many other Scripture verses. Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it (the Gospel) is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;..." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible